Valerie Striar

Valerie Striar, photo by Tamara Schlesinger

Valerie Striar creates solo and group dance/theater and film works that have been presented in the United States, Canada, Germany and Italy. In New York, her creations have been seen at the Wax Performing Space, Judson Church, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, the Kitchen, the Dia Center, Joyce SoHo, Dixon Place, the Ohio Theater, The Vineyard Theater and Anthology Film Archives. Her work, Cosimo, inspired by Italo Calvino’s, The Baron in the Trees was produced by La Mama, E.T.C. and HERE. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. In 2005, she danced in the film Romance and Cigarettes directed by John Turturro. In 2010, Striar created a puppet performance of Esther Averill’s, Jenny and the Cat Club which she and her daughter, Aria perform in living rooms, gardens and bookstores. Striar presented new poetry and a viewing of her film, The Bird Queen, at The Shed in Dec. 2011. In March 2012, Striar presented Marguerite and Robert, part 1 of an evolving work, as part of the Performance Mix Festival at the Joyce SoHo. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Walter and their daughter Aria.

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Daniel Linehan, photo by Bart Grietens

The Performance Mix Festival was an important part of my early career in New York. As one of the first venues where my dances were presented in New York, it was a laboratory where I could experiment with new ways of working. I was very happy to take advantage of the other opportunities connected to the festival–the rehearsal space, the Breakfast Mix meetings with other artists, the chance to take my work on tour to Philadelphia and Montréal. What’s special about NDA/Performance Mix is that it is not only concerned with presenting the final product, but it really aims to meet the needs of the artist at every stage of the process.